ENHANCEMENTS: Mediated Urban Landscapes

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1 ENHANCEMENTS: Mediated Urban Landscapes Organizing Committee: Konstantinos Ioannidis, PhD, aaiko arkitekter, Oslo, Norway (Head of the Committee and Local Organiser) Kåre Synnes, PhD, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden Michiel de Lange, PhD, Utrecht University, Media & Culture Studies, Netherlands Tatiana Ruchinskaya, PhD, TVR Design Consultancy, Cambridge, UK Venue: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Architecture Department of Architecture Design and Technology University Campus Thessaloniki, Hellas Day 1 (29 th March 2016) A Training School Meetings 1 08:30 Registration 2 09:00 Welcome Dr. Konstantinos Ioannidis Local Organiser aaiko arkitekter, Oslo, Norway 3 09:15 Official opening Dr. Carlos Smaniotto Costa Chair of COST Action TU1306 (via Skype Meeting) 4 09:30 The City and the Public Dr. Fani Vavili Spaces Director of Department of Architecture Design and Technology, AUTH, Thessaloniki, Hellas 5 10:00 Thessaloniki 2300 years Dr. Nikos Kalogirou Head of the School of Architecture, AUTH 6 10:30 The Gardens of city s new waterfront Dr. Paraskevi Tarani School of Architecture, AUTH Room Building of Post- Graduate Studies Floor 2 11:00 Coffee break Foyer Floor 2 1 / 9

2 7 11:15 Intelligent Cities: 15 years of research at URENIO 8 12:00 Visit to the Waterfront Gardens Dr. Nicos Komninos URENIO Research Center, School of Architecture, AUTH (the bus will drop as in front of the Garden of Sun and we will walk up to the Garden of Music) Building of Post- Graduate Studies Floor 2 Waterfront Area 13:30 Lunch break Local Restaurant 9 15:00 Evening session I: Transforming Value: responsive technologies, prototypes and concepts Collective intelligence in web mediated environments Prof. dr. Aelita Skaržauskienė Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania Web-mediated environments are ideal environment for collective intelligence to emerge. In networked structures not only people, but also ICT are involved in knowledge creation. Because of the flexible and vague boundaries of mediated environments, people have more freedom of joining and leaving as opposed to fixed boundaries of institutional organizations. The aim of the workshop is to learn to evaluate different mediated environments (spaces, communities, networks, platforms etc.) using the set of socio-technological indicators. The tutor will introduce the collective intelligence (CI) concept and methodology for evaluating the potential of networked structures to generate collective intelligence. The group should apply the methodology for assessing and analyzing 3 research subjects in three different countries selected by the workshop group and produce a suggested prototype of one of the Garden with best practices accrued from the research activities they have followed. The outcome of the assignment would be a system model on the paper and/or the computer screen. 16:45 Coffee break Foyer 10 17:00 Evening session II 11 19:15 End Day 1 Collective intelligence in web mediated environments 2 / 9

3 Day 2 (30 th March 2016) A Training School Meetings 12 08:45 Registration 13 09:00 Morning session I: Spatial and Digital Methods: from analog to networked design processes Room City life, architecture and the materiality of interaction Prof. dr. Mikael Wiberg Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden This workshop takes a point of departure in emerging views for an enhanced architecture and spatial interactive design. A particular focus for this workshop is on interactive materiality in smart cities and how digital technology can be used to re-imagine, re-purpose, scaffold and/or support everyday life in the city. In this workshop we will go into theories of interaction design and architecture and then, through city walks, explore and re-think the city landscape from the viewpoint of interaction design. As an outcome of this workshop our aims are to: 1. Create a space to allow the discussion of design opportunities at the intersection of esthetics, interaction design and architecture; 2. Create a venue to allow those engaged in urban development to collaborate; 3. To share and discuss concepts/prototypes designed to explore interactive materiality in smart cities; 4. To identify fundamental differences, similarities and synergies between different design and research approaches to interactive materiality in smart cities. 10:45 Coffee break Foyer 14 11:00 Morning session II: City life, architecture and the materiality of interaction 13:15 Lunch break 15 15:00 Evening session I: Spatial and Digital Methods: from analog to networked design processes New reality of a coastal Mediated Public Spaces in Thessaloniki: Area Enhancement Strategies for Thessaloniki Regeneration Scheme University Restaurant * Dr. Tatiana Ruchinskaya TVR Design Consultancy, Cambridge, UK 3 / 9

4 The New Waterfront of Thessaloniki (2014) is a key territory for the outdoor public activity of the city. The main principle for the basic choices of the proposal was an ideal place for walking without interruptions. 13 green spaces/gardens were formed, as a succession of green rooms gardens, each with a special thematic characteristic. The main objective of the workshop is to propose Area Enhancement Strategies which will connect the city centre with green spaces/gardens at the New Waterfront. Schemes should create a high quality street environment that make the area more pleasant and easy to use for workers, residents and visitors to the area. Cycling and walking will become more convenient as public highways and open spaces are better connected and easier to use through a series of street enhancements. These improvements should build on the unique character Thessaloniki, emphasising its rich architectural and cultural heritage, encouraging its growing retail and leisure facilities. 16:45 Coffee break Foyer 16 17:00 Evening session II 17 19:15 End Day 2 New reality of a coastal Mediated Public Spaces in Thessaloniki: Area Enhancement Strategies for Thessaloniki Regeneration Scheme * Lunch will be served at the reserved terrace area of the University Restaurant. Price: 7euro/person. Day 3 (31 ST March 2016) A Training School Meetings 18 08:45 Registration 19 09:00 Morning session I: Spatial and Digital Methods: from analog to networked design processes WAY-CyberParks: an ICT tool for social reporting and urban planning Dr. Luis Enrique Díez Blanco Deusto Institute of Technology, Mobility Unit, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain Room Building of Post- Graduate Studies Floor 2 4 / 9

5 The planning of a urban space for a specific use does not guarantee what will occur in that place. Urban places acquire their meaning through the usage and the common perception that communities have about them. As the training school s topic points out, the intensive usage of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) modifies our social and spatial behaviour and, therefore, it affects our usage and perception of the urban spaces. However, simultaneously, ICT are a great tool for obtaining information about how a urban space is being used and how it should be modified according to the users needs, because it allows to meet one of the main objectives of the urban planning: knowing users opinions. Therefore, the main objective of this session is to show the students the ability of the ICT tools for enhancing the communication with the potential users, allowing them to participate creatively, providing this way a great help to the urban planners. In order to achieve this objective, the WAY-CyberParks tool, developed under the same COST action, will be presented and a hands-on activity will be proposed, in which they will have the opportunity to try it and check its capabilities. 10:45 Coffee break Foyer Floor :00 Morning session II: WAY-CyberParks: an ICT tool for social reporting and urban planning Building of Post- Graduate Studies Floor 2 13:15 Lunch break 21 15:00 Parallel Workshop 1 - Evening session I: Transforming Value: responsive technologies, prototypes and concepts University Restaurant 1 Application of ICT to develop the rest offer in programming process of public greenery Asst. Prof. dr. Kinga Kimic Department of Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Reach and various rest offer can be one of determinants of top quality pubic greenery and make it attractive for all types of users. Programming is a method use in designing process of public spaces and public greenery related to creation of their rest places. It based on recognition and valuation of spatial and functional condition of the space linked with user s expectations. Innovative Information and Communication Technologies accompany many outdoor activities can interact with that process characteristic for landscape architecture. The application of ICT in public greenery can be one of 5 / 9

6 tools used to development of many urban parks and gardens rest places making them a part of Mediated Urban Landscapes. The possibility of ICT application in designing of public greenery became essential to bring people of digital natives outdoor, help to increase the amount of time spent outdoors, improve relationships between users of public greenery and enhance their quality of life. The final results of described workshop s module - completed in clear form of program table presenting diversity of examples and ideas - will show the variety of proposals related to many forms of ICT forms offered for selected garden of New Waterfront of Thessaloniki :00 Parallel Workshop 2 - Evening session I: Social Life in Mediated Environments: architecture, space and postdigital humanities The Akalyptos _ The Hybrid Hortus Conclusus Dr. Vanessa Tsakalidou architects, Thessaloniki, Hellas Dr. Anastasia Papadopoulou architects, Thessaloniki, Hellas The workshop will investigate the installation of an interactive platform for meeting, exchange, discussion, gaming and play inside the continuous building system that defines the major part of Thessaloniki - the network of hidden and inactive inner courtyards (known as akalyptos ) mostly covered with wild vegetation. The project will explore open air - enclosed space in its multiple readings and transformations, while combining physical and digital space, transferring people, especially the youth, from the enclosed boundary of their rooms to a new mediated room outdoors, back to nature, in the heart of their building plot. It will point the way towards a multi-sensory architecture which embeds ICT, in order to facilitate social interaction and spark a sense of belonging among the residents. Room :45 Coffee break Foyer 23 17:00 Parallel Workshop 1 - Evening session II: Application of ICT to develop the rest offer in programming process of public greenery 24 17:00 Parallel Workshop 2 - Evening session II: The Akalyptos _ The Hybrid Hortus Conclusus Room :15 End Day 3 6 / 9

7 Day 4 (1 ST April 2016) A Training School Meetings 26 08:45 Registration 27 09:00 Morning session I: Social Life in Mediated Environments: architecture, space and postdigital humanities Room Digital Cities Shareable spaces Prof. dr. Nicos Komninos URENIO Research Center, School of Architecture, AUTH, Thessaloniki, Hellas Dr. Paraskevi Tarani URENIO Research Center, School of Architecture, AUTH, Thessaloniki, Hellas Dr. Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos School of Journalism and Mass Media Studies, AUTH, Thessaloniki, Hellas Dr. Nancy Martzopoulou School of Architecture, AUTH, Thessaloniki, Hellas The workshop will focus on the development and design of digital applications for cities, the sharing information and digital urban services. The workshop will be organised in sessions starting with the Shareable cities an introduction about digital cities, digital services and applications for cities and public realm. The participants, in small groups, will discuss the presented applications and they will interact for further development and improvements through a playful creative process including problem analysis, mindmaps, and creative brainstorming in three steps: (a) identify the DNA identity, the functions of each application; (b) look for analogies by thinking of existing applications with similar characteristics performing better in similar environments; (c) think of how can we transfer solutions from similar products and applications to the students applications in order to be improved. 10:45 Coffee break Foyer 28 11:00 Morning session II: Digital Cities Shareable spaces 13:15 Lunch break 29 15:00 Parallel Workshop 1 - Evening session I: Transforming Value: responsive technologies, prototypes and concepts Living City University Restaurant 1 Ms. Erina Filipovska 7 / 9

8 Faculty of Architecture, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, F.Y.R.O.Macedonia The workshop will present a novel technique in materializing the idea of smart cities where the inhabitants can participate in configuring urban spaces depending on their needs in time. It is a prototype scale smart flexible surface that could be placed in any street, park, square in the city, with its own system triggered by people s presence. The approach offers unique advantages in combining the accessibility of the new technologies with the adaptation processes of physical computing and embedded intelligence together with the materials and processes in real time data environments. The final outcome of the half- day exercise should be presented as an algorithmic view connecting all the possible parameters in an algorithmic manner: 1. Dynamic geometries_ exploring the possible forms and shapes 2. Material system_ what materials and interactive systems can be used as an outcome of previous location research 3. Actuation of response_ determine the flow of data in both directions: getting the information and giving the outcome by choosing different types of sensing devices 30 15:00 Parallel Workshop 2 - Evening session I: Social Life in Mediated Environments: architecture, space and postdigital humanities Sound Hacks in Cyberparks Mr. Massimiliano Casu Hypermedia Research Group, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain Dr. Magdalini Grigoriadou Hypermedia Research Group, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain The focal point of the workshop is in spaces, devices, instruments and practices that make the extra-ordinary appear in the urban context, constituting one of the most important laboratories of processing and social moulding of the current city. What can we learn from the public imagination and their extra-ordinary manifestations? Undoubtedly by observing and activating practices we can reformulate the civility from the hyperbole, the metaphor, the joke and, in general, the ephemeral appearance of other realities that allow re-signify the public space. For these reasons, in recent years some experimental work has been done on playing and sound production in the public space, attempting to investigate how the party can activate collective processes of use, production and semantics of the contemporary city. The heart of experiments focuses in the use of music as a tool for activation of the collective processes of dialogue, ownership and production of the urban Room / 9

9 environment, based on perceptions and experiences, as music has the ability to transfer emotions and feelings in a direct and intensive way. 16:45 Coffee break Foyer 31 17:00 Parallel Workshop 1 - Evening session II: Living City 32 17:00 Parallel Workshop 2 - Evening session II: Sound Hacks in Cyberparks Room :15 Coffee break Foyer 34 19:30 Round Table Discussion and Farewell Dr. Konstantinos Ioannidis Local Organiser Tutors of the ENHANCEMENTS Training School 35 20:15 End of ENHANCEMENTS training School 9 / 9